The Destroyer Series by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir, France-Marie Watkins, Brigitte Sallebert, James Mullaney, Will Murray

3.78 · 218 ratings
  • Created, the Destroyer (The Destroyer #1)
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    Created, the Destroyer (The Destroyer #1)

    Warren Murphy

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1971

    When ex-New Jersey cop Remo Williams is electrocuted for the murder of a dope-dealing goon, CURE, a super-secret government agency that doesn't really exist, schemes to resurrect Remo as the ultimate killing machine that will carry out most of its dirty plans. Under the direction of expert assassin Master Chiun, Remo is transformed into the Destroyer and launches a series of secret plots to dissolve the underworld.

  • Death Check (The Destroyer #2)
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    Death Check (The Destroyer #2)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 1972

    The big brains behind the business usually have many pots boiling on their stove, or running their think engines as the case may be. But when the business motto of the Brewster forum, Pursuing Research Into Original Thought, leads them to some eccentric affairs that throw them far enough off track, Remo Williams enlists the help of his Master Chiun to solve a harrowing crime.

  • Chinese Puzzle (The Destroyer #3)
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    Chinese Puzzle (The Destroyer #3)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 1972

    A Chinese diplomat is decidedly deceased and the communist chairman's advisor is shanghaied while burrowing in the Bronx. The State Department is seeing red and a sour situation gets spicy. Now Remo Williams and his Korean mentor, Master Chiun, must save the abducted adviser and compromise the conspiracy before the kung fu hits the fan... more

  • Mafia Fix (The Destroyer #4)
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    Mafia Fix (The Destroyer #4)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir, France-Marie Watkins

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings · published 1972

    When ten billion filthy drug dollars' worth of heroin pollutes the Jersey shore and threatens to make the Mafia a second Evil Empire, the president knows there's just one man who can stop a Jersey Kingpin from destroying the country and that's an ex-Jersey cop resurrected and nicknamed the Destroyer. Remo Williams is on a mission to mainline death and destruction into the Cosa Nostra before Main Street gets stuck... more

  • Dr. Quake (The Destroyer #5)
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    Dr. Quake (The Destroyer #5)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir, Brigitte Sallebert

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings · published 1972

    Forber isn't a mad scientist, he's a tectonic technician with a touch for terror who goes by the name Dr. Quake. California's touchy San Andreas Fault is in danger of being professionally provoked. But it's not Dr. Quake's fault, for someone has split with his earthquake machine. If this dastardly deviant doesn't get a million dollars in cold hard cash he is going to shake down Southern California for a whole lot more... more

  • Death Therapy (The Destroyer #6)
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    Death Therapy (The Destroyer #6)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir, Brigitte Sallebert

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings · published 1972

    Brilliant and dazzlingly beautiful Dr. Lithia Forrester is masterminding an undercover agency that is stealing America's top secrets. The group is infiltrating the highest echelons of the U.S. government and planning to sell the information at an international auction, where every country's ante is a billion in gold - control of the USA going to the highest bidder. What the small army doesn't know is they are subjects of Dr. Forrester's mind control experiments... more

  • Murder's Shield  (The Destroyer) (The Destroyer #9)
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    Murder's Shield (The Destroyer) (The Destroyer #9)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1973

    An army of renegade cops across the country have been assigned the task of squashing criminal cockroaches under their boots. It's a dirty job and the White House entrusts it to only one man - The Destroyer. Between Master Chiun's exquisite sense of justice and Remo Williams' knack for murder, they are ready to bring justice to town once and for all.

  • Kill Or Cure  (The Destroyer) (The Destroyer #11)
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    Kill Or Cure (The Destroyer) (The Destroyer #11)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1973

    A plot designed by the United States' top-secret agency, CURE, to dispose of a certain corrupt politician, is revealed in what unravels into a national scandal. The agency must be dismantled before greater suspicions arise and one of the top leaders, The Destroyer, is finally destroyed himself. But Master Chiun's days of work haven't ended, and he's not waiting around for his sidekick Remo to be out of a job either... more

  • Acid Rock (The Destroyer #13)
    #13

    Acid Rock (The Destroyer #13)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1973

    The stage is set for murder, mayhem and deafening music. But the music isn't loud enough to drown out the shots aimed at the gorgeous redhead on stage. Not that anybody is paying much attention, not in the screaming chaos of the world's biggest rock festival ever. The girl likes to be near singers, the freakier and more spaced-out the better. Some of them get too close and wind up permanently spaced out. Why? Someone wants to kill the beautiful girl with the long auburn hair... more

  • Funny Money (The Destroyer #18)
    #18

    Funny Money (The Destroyer #18)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1975

    The San Diego branch of the Secret Service is receiving some absolutely perfect counterfeit U.S. currency in the mail, and getting nervous. A flood of these bogus bucks could cripple the economy. But plans for using the funny money are more devious than that - and it's all the work of an utterly gorgeous impossible brilliant female scientist and her not-quite-human associate, Mr. Gordons... more

  • Assassin's Play Off (The Destroyer #20)
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    Assassin's Play Off (The Destroyer #20)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 1975

    For centuries, the ancient House of Sinanju is recognized as the center of learning for all the martial arts. From the ancestral nucleus of Oriental power and prestige have come the world's deadliest assassins and killers, also man's greatest protectors and warriors. To become a Master of Sinanju, however, is to totally perfect one's mental, spiritual, and physical powers. Very few mortals possess even a fraction of the necessary skills. Mere muscle or brains do not matter... more

  • Deadly Seeds (The Destroyer #21)
    #21

    Deadly Seeds (The Destroyer #21)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1975

    Remo Williams and the incredible Korean, Chiun, battle a diabolical industrialist who has devised a way to kill more people than any war has yet done.

  • Brain Drain (The Destroyer #22)
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    Brain Drain (The Destroyer #22)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1976

    Artists, composers, and writers are being mutilated and destroyed in the bloodiest murders in police history. The workings of a maniac are taking one thing--their brains! The chief of CURE nearly ends up as the next corpse ... Remo and Chiun are acting fast, and discovering the killer's an old enemy, stockpiling brains to extract the creativity he's lacking.... They are tracking him to Hollywood "top brain center" where work can be fun! A sexy agent wants Remo for a new career .. more

  • King's Curse  (The Destroyer) (The Destroyer #24)
    #24

    King's Curse (The Destroyer) (The Destroyer #24)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1976

    New York graffiti artists are leaving their marks everywhere. Even on museum exhibit Uctut, the massive stone idol of the Actatl tribe, who had secretly survived since Cortes and his conquistadors. They are avenging the insult by killing museum trustees and a congressman - by the ancient ritual of cutting out their hearts! Remo and Chiun are entering the fray with ancient Sinanju, and Actatls biting the dust as the tribe musters to do battle with CURE... more

  • Sweet Dreams [The Destroyer: 25] (The Destroyer #25)
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    Sweet Dreams [The Destroyer: 25] (The Destroyer #25)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1976

    When a brilliant professor invents the world's first fantasy realization device, allowing anyone to watch their own secret fantasies on television, the Mafia are out to steal it, TV executives want to control it, and Remo and Chiun might be the only ones able to prevent it from killing everyone. As the death toll mounts, Remo, the Destroyer, and his teacher Chiun race to decipher the device's dangerous and deadly effects... more

  • The Last Temple (The Destroyer #27)
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    The Last Temple (The Destroyer #27)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1977

    The bodies of two murdered Israelis have turned up, hacked to bits and the pieces arranged in a bloody swastika - and Remo and Chiun are on their way to meet the leaders of an Israeli doomsday group, Zeher Lahurban. In the event of Israel losing the war with the Arabs, secretly stored atom bombs will drop on Arab territory. But a group of ex-Nazis discover the plan, and see a way to destroy the Jewish nation once and for all - without any help from the Arabs... more

  • Killer Chromosomes (The Destroyer #32)
    #32

    Killer Chromosomes (The Destroyer #32)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1978

    It was supposed to be a harmless scientific demonstration. To disprove her critics, geneticist Sheila Feinberg ingests a chromosomal cocktail on live TV. Suddenly, she's agile, intelligent… and deadly. Craving meat of the human variety, she stalks the city of Boston, drawing the attention of the police, the President, and soon CURE. Locked in a race that has the bodies piling up, Remo must pull himself together to defeat the wily doctor, before she pulls him apart... more

  • Chained Reaction (The Destroyer #34)
    #34

    Chained Reaction (The Destroyer #34)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1978

    Black is not only beautiful, it's Ruby Gonzalez . . . the wild CIA lady with a sure cure for what ails Remo and Chiun. Remo Williams just can't seem to forget he was once a Newark cop. But when you're the Destroyer you do need a little humility. Yellow, the worth of gold, the texture of parchment, the color of the sun source itself . . . and, in the inscrutable, insuperable, Chiun, a veritable galaxy of wisdom and power. And fun at a riot... more

  • Last Call (The Destroyer #35)
    #35

    Last Call (The Destroyer #35)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1978

    Red RiotDuring a CIA budget war, a group of assassins mistakenly triggers an ingenious CIA plot originally planned in the 1950s - and a world-wide killing spree of top-level Russian officials begins... more

  • Power Play (The Destroyer #36)
    #36

    Power Play (The Destroyer #36)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1979

    Wesley Pruiss has made a career of catering to the nation's basest animal instincts ("If you like your magazine dirty, you'll love it when it's Gross!”). His empire encompasses print, nightclubs, and soon film. So why has be bought-up a bankrupt county in rural Indiana? Pruiss would have the world believe it's to develop it into a national laboratory for solar energy systems. Not really though—that's just his cover story for shooting the raunchiest skin flick conceived by man... more

  • Bay City Blast (The Destroyer #38)
    #38

    Bay City Blast (The Destroyer #38)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1979

    Bay City, New Jersey has seen better days. Once a center of coastal commerce, its docks sit empty, its factories idle, its business district a ghost town. It’s the kind of blighted backwater that attracts criminals like a body draws blowflies. Bay City’s newly-appointed mayor, the sharp-suited, deep-pocketed Rocco Nobile, may have earnest urban renewal on his mind, or he may be a frontman for organized crime... more

  • Missing Link (The Destroyer #39)
    #39

    Missing Link (The Destroyer #39)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1980

    Bobby-Jack Billings is a beer-guzzling, gut-bulging slipshod. He’s a drunk, a racist, and a buffoon. He’s also the President's brother-in-law. And he’s missing. Having him out of the headlines is a welcome relief, but could it be too welcome? Are the Libyans behind it? The Israel lobby? Was it an inside job? Chiun and Remo are on the case, but teasing apart the twisted strands of international intrigue may demand more subtlety than the Destroyer commands... more

  • Midnight Man (The Destroyer #43)
    #43

    Midnight Man (The Destroyer #43)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1981

    Elmo Wimpler, weak in body but strong in mind, has finally invented something worthwhile. It’s not dry cereal that tastes like ham and eggs, it’s far better than he could’ve dreamed. A black paint, when applied liberally to any object, completely disappears in the dark. The implications are massive: government contracts, private use, anything. Except that the idiots at the Friends of Inventors investment firm don’t have any vision... more

  • Profit Motive (The Destroyer #48)
    #48

    Profit Motive (The Destroyer #48)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1982

    It seems like a good idea at first--a bacterium developed to consume oil spills at sea. But when the bug mutates, threatening to convert all the petroleum in the world into wax, Western civilization is suddenly up for grabs. And a lot of slimy characters are determined not to let it slip through their fingers. Which is where Remo and Chiun come in--that is, until the Master of Sinanju cuts out ... joining the opposition... more

  • High Priestess (The Destroyer #95)
    #95

    High Priestess (The Destroyer #95)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir, Will Murray

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 1994

    New Age diva Squirrelly Chicane, the hottest channeler the side of Atlantis, has made millions getting high on the afterlife. So when a delegation of Himalayan holy men convince a very stoned Squirrelly that she's an incarnation of the Bunji Lama, she figures ruling their little country would be a kick. But big bad China is playing a game of turf war, and Tibet is the unlucky first contestant... more

  • Identity Crisis (The Destroyer #97)
    #97

    Identity Crisis (The Destroyer #97)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir, Will Murray

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 1994

    Could Doctor Harold Smith be Remo William's biological father? Not only is Remo a few decades behind in father's day cards, but the discovery has sparked the volatile relationship between Remo, a very jealous Chiun, and Smith, who can't let his own son remain CURE's expendable enforcement arm... more

  • The Color of Fear (The Destroyer #99)
    #99

    The Color of Fear (The Destroyer #99)

    Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 1995

    A Civil War reenactment becomes neither civil nor a reenactment. Strange transmissions of laser color are causing all kinds mayhem. Can it really be a menace when cartoon characters are involved? Meanwhile, France attacks it’s own amusement park with deadly results. Can these two events be linked? Uncle Sam Beasley seems to be at the center of it all, but Remo and Chiun must battle their own color phobias to find him. Again.

  • Guardian Angel (The Destroyer #147)
    #147

    Guardian Angel (The Destroyer #147)

    Warren Murphy, James Mullaney, Richard Sapir

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2007

    THE DESTROYER NEVER DIES . . . .  VIVA LA REVOLUCION! When a dozen border patrol volunteers are murdered in New Mexico, apparent victims of Mexican nationals, Dr. Harold W. Smith of the super-secret agency CURE worries the first salvo in a new border dispute has been fired.  His worst fears are realized with the appearance of the charismatic Santa Ana, a uniformed, would-be despot with a silver tongue and a thirst for bloody revolution.   General Santa Anna has redrawn the border between the U... more

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